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title: Proserpina has been at play with us, it is true; but she left us a l… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Proserpina has been at play with us, it is true; but she left us a long while ago, meaning only to run a little way upon the dry land, and gather some flowers for a wreath. Who acts: Proserpina, play, mother. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 60

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Proserpina has been at play with us, it is true; but she left us a long while ago, meaning only to run a little way upon the dry land, and gather some flowers for a wreath.

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**Who acts:** Proserpina, play, mother · **What happens:** be, leave, mean, run, gather · **To what, where:** play, us, little way, dry land, flowers

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Proserpina, play, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:1572`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:21:60
# text = Proserpina has been at play with us, it is true; but she left us a long while ago, meaning only to run a little way upon the dry land, and gather some flowers for a wreath.
1	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Proserpina |  |  | play |  | with us | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | play |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | past | mother | us |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **run** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | a little way |  | the dry land |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon land=Trajectory |
| 6 | **gather** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | some flowers |  |  |  | for a wreath | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for wreath=Beneficiary |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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